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NFL signs more than $110bn worth of domestic media rights deals
Set of five landmark pacts nearly double league's annual US media rights
Playfly Sports acquires trio of Fox Sports agencies
Pennsylvania-based sports agency expands sales, marketing presence
Team follows Brazil with Uefa club competitions rights tender in Latin America
Latin America is the latest territory in which invitations to submit offers have been issued for Uefa club competitions broadcast rights from 2021-22 to 2023-24
Viewership grows 3 per cent for NFL Conference Championship games
Audience lift reverses trend from 2020 regular season, earlier playoff rounds
NFL Divisional playoff ratings slide 7 per cent
League, networks bounce back somewhat from Wild Card round
NFL game on Nickelodeon proves to be substantial hit
Youth-oriented TV production likely to be soon replicated
NFL ends 2020 regular season down 7 per cent in ratings
Despite large viewership, league sees ratings erosion due in part to news consumption
Liga MX side Santos Laguna sues Disney over alleged contract breach
The Walt Disney Company is being sued by Mexican Liga MX club Santos Laguna over allegations of contractual violation as a by-product of Disney’s 21st Century Fox acquisition in 2019.
Torneos and GSRM land Argentinian league international rights, Disney renews to 2030
Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…
NFL ‘poised to generate’ more than $100bn in new domestic rights deals
The National Football League is poised to generate more than $100bn (€82bn) in a series of new long-term domestic television rights deals, further highlighting just how powerful the sports property is t…
Mexican regulator hands Disney new deadline for Fox Sports sale, Mediapro ‘interested’
The Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), Mexico’s telecoms regulator, has set a March 2021 deadline for Disney’s long-anticipated divestment of its Fox Sports business in the country.
Fox CFO suggests network could drop NFL Thursday package
Tomsic says Sunday afternoon games will remain key priority
How MLS capitalized on shifting landscape to secure inaugural midweek primetime TV slot
At extremely short notice, MLS moved its Western Conference Semifinal game between Sporting Kansas City and Minnesota United back a day to gain coverage on the main Fox network. League executive Seth Bacon tells Bob Williams how the switch happened.
Sporting Kansas City-Minnesota United playoff game moved to secure primetime Fox window
Major League Soccer has pushed back the MLS Cup Western Conference Semifinal game between Sporting Kansas City and Minnesota United FC by one day to December 3 in order to secure a primetime broadcast…
Judge rejects AFA appeal to cancel Fox Sports’ Primera División contract
A judge in a commercial court has thrown out the Argentinian Football Association’s appeal to overturn a ruling reinstating pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports’ rights to the nation’s top tier of pr…
Fox Sports broadcasts opening Primera División matches after injunction
Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports broadcast the opening weekend of the top-tier Primera División league in Argentina after an injunction was issued.
Fox threatens legal response to Argentinian Primera División contract termination
Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has warned that it will use “all measures” at its disposal, including “legal and judicial action” following the termination of its rights agreement for Argentina’s Primera D…
World Series TV ratings hit record low
Viewership for Dodgers-Rays matchup falls 30 per cent from a year ago